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• Print length 448 pages
• Language English
• Publication date April 2 2019
• Dimensions 13.34 x 2.86 x 20.32 cm
• ISBN-10 0316492442
• ISBN-13 978-0316492447
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hachette Books; Illustrated edition (April 2 2019)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316492442
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316492447
• Item weight ‏ : ‎ 381 g
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.34 x 2.86 x 20.32 cm
• #162 in Rock Music (Books)
• #307 in Musician Biographies
• #309 in Composer & Musician Biographies (Books)

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Charles r. cross.

Charles R. Cross graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a degree in creative writing. At the UW, he served as editor of the Daily in 1979, and caused a major ruckus when he left the front page of the newspaper blank. The only type was a small line that read “The White Issue,” in deference to the Beatles’ White Album.

After college, Cross served as editor of The Rocket, the Northwest’s music and entertainment magazine, from 1986 through 2000. The Rocket was hailed as “the best regional music magazine in the nation” by the L.A. Reader, and it was the first publication ever to run a story on Nirvana. Cross wrote stories on such seminal Northwest bands as The Wailers, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and hundreds, if not thousands, of lesser-known bands. In addition to The Rocket, Cross’s writing has appeared in hundreds of magazines, including Rolling Stone, Esquire, Playboy, Spin, Guitar World, Q, Uncut, and Creem. He has also written for many newspapers and alternative weeklies, including the London Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Seattle Times, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He has lectured and read at universities and colleges around the world, and has frequently been interviewed for film, radio, and television documentaries, including VH1’s "Behind the Music."

Cross is the author of seven books, including 2005’s Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix (published by Hyperion in the U.S., and Hodder in the U.K.). His 2001 release, Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (Hyperion/Hodder), was a New York Times bestseller and was called “one of the most moving and revealing books ever written about a rock star” by the Los Angeles Times. In 2002, Heavier Than Heaven won the ASCAP Timothy White Award for outstanding biography. Cross’s other books include the national bestseller Cobain Unseen (Little Brown), Backstreets: Springsteen, the Man and His Music (Harmony, 1989); Led Zeppelin: Heaven and Hell (Harmony, 1992); and Nevermind: The Classic Album (Schirmer, 1998).

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Charles R. Cross: Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography Of Kurt Cobain

One of the most enduring myths of Kurt Cobain's life depicts the singer as a high-school dropout, kicked out of his home, sleeping under a bridge by the fetid Wishkah River in Aberdeen, Washington. The image is a tremendously potent, concise expression of the rejection, alienation, and sadness that infused Cobain's songs and ultimately consumed his life. It's also a lie—or, to put it charitably, a poetic embellishment. Cobain was definitely homeless for a stretch in his late teens, and he may have slept under a bridge, but it couldn't have been the fabled Young Street Bridge, which the rising tides rendered inhospitable. Charles Cross' levelheaded, scrupulously researched biography, Heavier Than Heaven , sets the record straight on this and other tall tales about Cobain, many of them spun for the sake of colorful press by the man himself. The telling disparities between truth and self-styled legend are at the heart of Cross' portrait of Cobain, which reveals a contradictory character with a grim sense of destiny and a greater awareness of his own rock stardom than he ever let on. A former editor for The Rocket , the Northwest entertainment magazine that ran the first cover article on Nirvana, Cross conducted more than 400 interviews with Cobain's family, friends, and hangers-on, and was granted access to his raw, unpublished diaries. Because the story of Nirvana has been told countless times over, most notably in Michael Azerrad's authorized biography Come As You Are , Cross devotes an inordinate amount of time to the musician's childhood, looking for early signs of his creative talent and his bent for self-destruction. Cobain is remembered as a cheery, sensitive young boy, but his life took an irrevocable turn after his parents' divorce, which radically changed his disposition and later inspired several of his songs. From that point on, he felt increasingly out of place in the backwoods logging town of Aberdeen, where he bounced between homes and developed a taste for punkish misanthropy, drug abuse, and morbid creative expression. By the time he formed Nirvana with gawky local bassist Krist Novoselic and a rotating cast of drummers, Cobain had a strong vision of himself as a rock star, and he was prepared and even expecting to die like one, too. For the most part, Heavier Than Heaven is a conventional biography that recreates Cobain's life in impressive (though occasionally overwrought) detail, paying special attention to the making of Nevermind and the days leading up to his suicide on April 5, 1994. Cross' decision to open the book with one of Cobain's several brushes with death—a 1992 drug overdose in a New York City hotel—shrouds the book in a chilling tone of inevitability. Conspiracy theorists will no doubt question, with good reason, the author's surprisingly gentle treatment of Courtney Love, who consented to extensive interviews and gave him rare access to Cobain's writings. But while Love's culpability in her husband's demise may be downplayed, Cross makes a convincing case for suicide as part of Cobain's master plan, drafted long before the couple ever met. A true rock historian, Cobain joined what his mother indelicately termed "the stupid club," a class of elite superstars (Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison among them) who also died at 27. Like them, Cobain had doom, as well as enduring brilliance, hard-wired in his circuitry.

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“He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.” ― Charles R. Cross, quote from Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

“Kurt left in the early morning to walk around Aberdeen in the pale light of dawn. The storm had passed, birds were chirping, and everything in the world seemed more alive. He walked around for hours thinking about it all, waiting for school to begin, watching the sun come up, wondering where his life was heading.” ― Charles R. Cross, quote from Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

“Once Ryan asked Kurt, “What are you going to do when you’re thirty?” “I’m not worried about what’s going to happen when I’m thirty,” Kurt replied in the same tone he would use to discuss a broken spark plug, “because I’m never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty—I don’t want that.” ― Charles R. Cross, quote from Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

“By the second week of November 1990, a new character had begun to spring forth in Kurt's journal writings, and this figure would soon make its way into almost every image, song, or story. He intentionally misspelled its name, and in doing so he was granting it a life of its own. Oddly, he gave it a female persona, but since it became his great love that Fall - and even made him throw up, just like Tobi - there was a fairness in this gender choice. He called it 'heroine'.” ― Charles R. Cross, quote from Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

“He had the desperation, not the courage, to be himself. Once you do that, you can’t go wrong, because you can’t make any mistakes when people love you for being yourself. But for Kurt, it didn’t matter that other people loved him; he simply didn’t love himself enough.” ― Charles R. Cross, quote from Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

“In Newcastle, Kurt announced from the stage, “I am a homosexual, I am a drug user, and I fuck pot-bellied pigs,” another classic Cobainism, though only one of his three claims was true.” ― Charles R. Cross, quote from Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

“Ele tinha o desespero, não a coragem, para ser ele mesmo. Uma vez que você tem isso, você não pode dar errado, porque você não pode cometer nenhum erro quando as pessoas o amam por você ser você mesmo. Mas, para Kurt, não importava que as outras pessoas o amassem; ele simplesmente não se amava o bastante.” ― Charles R. Cross, quote from Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

“Though Kurt would later claim that his graffiti messages were political, in fact, most of what he wrote was nonsensical. He enraged a neighbor with a boat by painting “Boat Ack” in red letters on the ship’s hull; on the other side he lettered, “Boat people go home.” ― Charles R. Cross, quote from Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

“Being unemployed, Kurt set in motion a routine that he would follow for the rest of his life. He would rise at around noon and eat a brunch of sorts. Kraft Macaroni and Cheese was his favorite food. After eating, he would spend the rest of the day doing one of three things: watching television, which he did unceasingly; practicing his guitar, which he did for hours a day, usually while watching TV; or creating some kind of art project, be it a painting, collage, or three-dimensional installation. This last activity was never formal— he rarely identified himself as an artist—yet he spent hours in this manner.” ― Charles R. Cross, quote from Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

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• Audible release date September 19, 2006
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